Breaking Gravity

When I picked up Breaking Gravity, I didn’t expect to spend every free moment of my weekend eagerly trying to finish the novel!The book included a collection of characters I became quickly attached to… From Dale’s first presentation to the panel, I found myself cheering him on and hoping that he would succeed in his “mission to live the life that [his] mom had envisioned for [him]..." and put some jerks in their place along the way.I enjoyed the down to earth, often humorous dialogue between characters; I think Walters has a gift for both dialogue and character development. I felt a familiarity with many of the characters, and I hold a special place in my heart for Jorge.They say you can’t go home, but Dale did exactly that as he returned to his questionable roots in Doraville for refuge, but as one might expect… hijinks did ensue.The author provided just the right amount of scientific explanation to make the fantastic feasible, to allow for the suspension of disbelief necessary to fuel the story. I found myself imagining extensions of Dale’s scientific discovery… wondering what other applications of his ideas were possible.I think the book is begging to be adapted into a screenplay. I longed to see certain scenes play out on the big screen and wondered who would play my favorite characters!I have to give a nod to the music playlist and website; I thought they enriched the experience of reading the book and allowed me to savor the experience just a little bit longer.Overall, I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed this novel, and I really look forward to what comes next from Mr. Mitty Walters. Don’t make us wait too long!

Sorry, the author clearly is writing beyond his experience. The monumental stupidity of these characters made me give up on this book. The premise that you could "accidentally" invent a way to defy gravity strains at believability, but then to have supposedly really smart people not clue in to the economic and world changing implications of an introduction of this type technology just shattered what little respect for the author I had.Note to author: If you are going to have a main character who just graduated from an elite business school react to a situation, you really should talk to a real business school graduate, not try and make one up. Economics is a big part of business school and the implications of what an invention of this sort would imply would take an actual business school grad about ten seconds to figure out. I could go on, but hopefully you get my point.

Although I would not classify this as science fiction it is a very enjoyable action story that made me think of a Clive Cussler book or the movie "Conspiracy Theory." In other words it was a very enjoyable story. I absolutely loved how the author ended the book, I think he is on to something integrating differing mediums. I look forward to reading more!

Great story with excellent momentum to keep the pages turning. The dialog is funtastic (a new word I just made up). The humor, the science, the familiarity with neighborhoods, the music references, the detailed interactions of people who grew up together...it feels real, and it feels like the reader is right there in the middle of it all.Although the plot seems familiar: competing global forces (pun not intended) battling to control a new source of power, a hero trying to escape their clutches with a cute girl and tapping into various outsider groups with the know-how to help, and lots of gun fights...this story is still a great adventure, well-written with maybe only two typos, and the protagonist is incredibly likable. The humorous dialog earns the book five stars.I recommend this book for readers who love science, endured higher education, and know what it's like to never outgrow childhood nicknames.

I'm sorry I wasted money on this trash. The main character is supposed to be a senior business major at Emory who discovers a world changing technology. That should mean he's at least business and real life savvy. The tech, BTW, is insanely stupid, insanely powerful, and would have been discovered decades if not centuries before now. He then presents the tech to a bunch venture capitalists in a class presentation. This is so stupid on so many levels that I just quit reading.

My biggest problem with the book is the page count per dollar.Great book, but a little short for the price - I expect to pay that price on something 3 - 5 times as long. But maybe that was because I enjoyed reading it so much I finished it in a single afternoons reading, and had time to post this review.I Agree with every specific by Greg Mitchell on January 21, 2017, but what he did not like I did.Like his review spoilers below.Sure at first the protagonist was slow to pick up on the threat. But who in real life wouldn't be? we are all no-bodies and dont expect to be targeted specifically by global conspiracies.And yes I kind of thought Kermit felt sort of tacked on to the story. Nothing really went anywhere, but then again the whole story took place in less than 2 weeks of time - infatuation might be there in that time, and maybe even passion, but people wont be certain that they are life mates in just that period of time too.Although I agree also that the remaining one of the two bad guy groups would make sense for most people to agree to join, the point throughout this whole story was that our protagonist was NOT interested in being controlled and needed to make certain that there would be no further reason to threaten his well being and joining the control group would have put him directly in a vulnerable position, as he explained he couldn't hold a deadman switch on the secret forever, he had to either pull that trigger or give up. And if he gave up that would be it, all control over his and his inventions future would be in the hands of the control group- and they would have no problem with 'tying up' loose ends if he objected to endless postponing of release of his invention...I understand every step of this book. And I would love a sequel.